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In five pages this paper discusses how the Constitution in the post-independence era shaped the definition of working-class Americans, and how the subsequent legal system developed accordingly. Three sources are listed in the bibliography.
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labor. This is likely because in order for the fledgling nation to prosper economically, it needed a workforce that consisted of men, women, and children. The capitalist philosophy
upon which the American economy is based regards workers as "devoid of independent constitutional thought" (Pope, 1997, p. 941). It was feared that legislation that specifically addressed labor and
laborers would be detrimental to the laissez-faire approach to economics (Pope, 1997). However, the post-independence legal system that developed would have to evolve to protect the constitutional rights of
laborers and working-class citizens adequately. As a result, constitution interpretations of laborers would come to define what it means to be a working-class citizen. In early America, like England,
the Industrial Revolution was in full swing. In the North, families (including young children) worked from sunrise to sunset seven days a week while in the South Negro slaves
worked exclusively for their masters and had no right to pursue independent employment. This exploitation of the working class was not considered a violation of the Constitution at the
time because Negroes were legally regarded in the South as personal property and not as citizens of the United States. However, this would change with the defeat of the
imminent defeat of the South in the Civil War. On January 31, 1865, the Thirteenth Amendment was added to the U.S. Constitution. It stated, "Neither slavery nor involuntary
servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction" (The Declaration
of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America, 1979, p. 31). The legal purpose of the Amendment was clarified in the subsequent Supreme Court decision of
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